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Gary Becker and Michael Boykins, "From the Economics of Discrimination to the Economics of Diversity"

Gary Becker is University Professor, Departments of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago and winner of the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the National Medal of Science in 2000. Michael Boykins is an attorney and Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee at McDermott, Will, and Emery. This talk was recorded February 26, 2009 and was sponsored by BLSA.


66:50 minutes (61.19 MB)
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2009

Cass Sunstein and Richard Epstein: "Should Conservatives Vote for Obama?"

This debate between University of Chicago Law School professors Cass Sunstein and Richard Epstein was recorded on March 3, 2008, and was cosponsored by the Federalist Society and the Black Law Students Association.


63:02 minutes (57.71 MB)
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2008

Kevin McMahon: “How FDR Paved the Way to Brown v. The Board of Education”

Kevin McMahon is Associate Professor of Political Sciencer at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. This talk was recorded April 25, 2007 as part of a series in honor of the 40th anniversary of Thurgood Marshall's appointment to the Supreme Court.


48:40 minutes (11.14 MB)
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2007

"US Involvement in the Darfur Conflict"

On Wednesday, November 15, 2006, the Earl B. Dickerson Chapter of the Black Law Student Association at the University of Chicago Law School hosted a discussion on the merits of US involvement in the Darfur conflict.


66:29 minutes (45.65 MB)
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2006

Cass Sunstein on Thurgood Marshall's Conception of Equality

Cass Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Dist. Service Prof. of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Justice Marshall in the 1979-80 term. This talk was recorded in November, 2006, as part of a series of talks hosted by the Black Law Students Association in honor of the 40th anniversary of Thurgood Marshall's appointment to the Supreme Court.


51:37 minutes (35.44 MB)
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2006
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